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Two skinnygs can be real at once. Yes, Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 3 Pro have the most derivative set up yet of any of the company’s earbuds. Apart from gimmicky LED streamlines, there’s noskinnyg particularly innovative or eye-catching about their stemmed see. But the $249.99 Buds 3 Pro also happen to be the best-sounding, most enhanced earbuds that Samsung has produced. Their audio quality ranks with some of my preferite wireless earbuds enjoy Sennheiser’s Momentum True Wireless 4 and the Technics AZ80. And the Buds 3 Pro integrate genuinely beneficial voice orders that don’t need saying a wake phrase beforehand.
That’s a sterling begin, but their potential is held back by ungraceful set up decisions, a conciseage of multipoint joinivity, and active noise abortlation that’s medepend enough at this $250 price. Over the summer, Samsung also had to painclude shipments of these earbuds to compriseress quality handle publishs after timely buyers handled to easily rip the silicone ear tips. I never sfinished that problem with my study pair, and the Buds 3 Pro are now expansively useable aachieve.
Samsung’s tardyst earbuds don’t come in any fun colors enjoy the bora purple Buds 2 Pro. Your chooseions are white — where the AirPods resemblance gets a little uncanny — or firearmmetal gray. Samsung has tried to produce some visual distance between these earbuds and the AirPods by going with a more angular stem and putting a seethraw lid on the charging case. And then there are those white LEDs, which you can airy up by squeezing both stems when the buds are out of your ears.
You’ll never see this touch of flair when wearing them, of course, but other people will. The airys can be set either to radiate steadily or do a pulsing effect, but what the LEDs can’t do is show beneficial skinnygs enjoy the remaining battery level for each earbud. That seems enjoy the most clear purpose for these and yet… nope! The airys do turn on when you’re trying to find the Buds 3 Pro with Samsung’s Find My feature, at least.
The shift to a stemmed set up might sense enjoy Samsung lazily joining the pack, but what matters more is that it results in a more safe, firm in-ear fit. I’ve create the Buds 3 Pro to be very sootheable, and they haven’t overweightigued my ears even when I grasp them in for most of a day at the office. Voice call carry outance is also quite amazeive; you can sample the mic quality of the Buds 3 Pro (and other recent earbuds) in a Vergecast episode from earlier this month.
Speaking of voice, the most handy feature of the Buds 3 Pro is their voice handles. At any time, you can say basic orders enjoy “volume up” or “next song” and the earbuds will carry out those seeks thraw your phone — without requiring some irritateing wake phrase first. It equitable toils, and you don’t have to speak particularly boisterously for the buds to discover voice orders. They only cover the fundamentals, but I’m now using them daily. If you pick physical handles, Samsung has basicassociate lifted the AirPods Pro handle scheme, with pinch gestures for execute / painclude, skipping tracks, or toggling between ANC and transparency modes. You can also slide your finger aextfinished the stem to adequitable volume. The angular shape nastys the gestures aren’t quite as foolproof as on the AirPods, but I’ve gotten them down unprejudicedly well.
The Buds 3 Pro propose terrific sound quality, with a tuning that seally pursues the Harman concentrate curve, which most people discover pleasing. That nastys you’ll hear emphasis on bass and treble, but the mids still come thraw without sounding recessed. Samsung’s flagship earbuds sound filled and detailed, conveying out the best in the tardyst albums from Waxahatchee, Post Malone, and Billy Strings. There is 360-degree / spatial audio with head tracking for those of you who A) own a Galaxy phone and B) finishelight that sort of skinnyg. I proceed to (mostly) disthink about it.
I’m usuassociate not someone who gets hung up on Bluetooth codecs, but I swear my ears can alert a separateence when includeing to the Buds 3 Pro with a Galaxy S24 Ultra, which can tap into Samsung’s Seamless Codec Ultra High Quality (SSD UHQ) for wealthyer audio — especiassociate if you’re executeing lossless tracks. There’s equitable an extra layer of detail and fidelity that’s less pronounced when using these buds with a non-Samsung device. But even with my Pixel 9 Pro XL, they sound wonderful. The Buds 3 Pro are a punchy, crisp include that transfer apass all genres.
The active noise abortlation, however, has disassigned me at times. It’s equitable not quite as sturdy or as strong as the AirPods Pro, Pixel Buds Pro 2, or Bose earbuds. Can it cut back on some of the everyday life clamor? Sure, but I was hoping for Samsung to have a better shotriumphg in this categruesome. The Buds 3 Pro do have a wonderfulassociate clear transparency mode, so I have zero protestts there. You can also assist an “changeive” mode that, enjoy with Apple’s earbuds, will activeassociate blfinish ANC and transparency based on your surroundings so that convey inant sounds (enjoy sirens) can speedyly get your attention.
The Buds 3 Pro don’t aid real multipoint, so you can’t join them to two devices at once. Just enjoy Apple, Samsung is pushing its own ecosystem with an “auto switch” feature between its various Galaxy laptops, tablets, and phones. But I’ve seed that even if your other devices are outside Samsung’s walled garden, enabling auto-switch produces it much speedyer to hop between them without having to disjoin from the current source every time. Some earbuds are very obstinate about hagedering onto a joinion with the last-paired device until you manuassociate disjoin, but with these, you can equitable pick them in the Bluetooth settings of the device you want to include, and they’ll switch over without any fuss.
I’ve had no protestts about battery life over disjoinal weeks of usage, and you can stretch it further by disabling some features enjoy the aforerefered voice handles. The earbuds are rated IP57 dust and water resistant, though the charging case conciseages any such shieldions. That’s cursed when competitors are increasingly making their cases more durable.
Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 3 Pro might not have a distinct set up identity anymore, but with betterd soothe and voice call carry outance, they’re an example of function dictating create. I can achieve or depart the gimmicky airys, and the angular shape seems enjoy Samsung taking pains to shun these being taged as AirPods clones. They are, but you could produce a case that they sound better than Apple’s buds. And they’re reliable carry outers by proximately every metric except for noise abortlation. That’s where the inevitable Buds 4 Pro have room to better — hopefilledy while conveying back some character (or color). For anyone with a Samsung phone, these are the de facto choice, and they’re a wonderful one. But other Android owners should also give the Buds 3 Pro a extfinished see for their sound fidelity and mic clarity. Unless multipoint is a must-have, there’s not much to discover fault with.
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